AIBU and spending too much?

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My DS2 turns 10 this year, has begged for a party at Legoland. It turns out the cost is £350 for the number of friends and us to go - my husband says this is too much money when you add it to presents, diesel etc. Having reminded him what parties had cost before......
Is the party a waste of money or something my DS2 will love and remember?
I really don't know whether I am being unreasonable or not to even propose spending that!

Why is it all either/or?

My dd has been using the wii since she was about five not least because she has a big brother 10 years older.
Ds2 uses it occasionally which we like because copying and understanding the conectness of the screen and what he is doing I'd good for him. He learnt to read in part having put subtitles on a DVD player. he has asd and any shared activity is bloody marvellous.
Neither of them are drooling idiots

I don't have a kindle but actually would get one for dd if I did not have an iPad she can borrow as she reads quickly and all the bloody time on holiday and it would save packing 10 books. Ditto ds1 who had to take a separate case for his pre exam English reading last year I don't know why I didn't think of downloading it all.

My dcs , in common with many others, are perfectly capable of playing on the wii, then playing in the garden, then reading a book and maybe even chatting over supper.

If the idea of having a gizmo in the house is so scary because it means they will lose any independent play, reading skills or inclination to do anything other than sit there, then they are fragile indeed.

It is like the tv. Some people chose to sit in front of it sly day. That says everything about them and very little about the tv. Most of us just use the off switch

350 is alot of money but i suppose if thats the kind of parties you are used to doing then its fine.

embarrasingly after reading a reply i read about someone wanting to buy their child a kindle, i thought it was a candle holder or something. i googled it.

its not a candle holder is it?

no. Not a candle holder.